Panic attacks are known for the intense and fear-laden discomfort they produce, can appear at any time and are therefore often unexpected; in addition, it is common for no direct and obvious causes to be associated. I want to talk in particular about night panic attacks.
In a way, it’s as if our body felt threatened, without any real danger. The body reacts as if the greatest of our fears were before us.
- Logically.
- Our mind can’t understand anything.
- For what?What triggered all this? I was calm and all of a sudden I’m sorry.
- I don’t understand anything? Our head does not understand this unexpected and unpredictable reaction of our body.
- And that’s the scariest thing.
One of the sensations that we tolerate the least, even if there are large individual differences, is uncertainty, unpredictability. With attacks, the lack of resources to predict or link them to a cause often ends up generating more anxiety than the attacks themselves.
When we are in a panic attack, there are several physiological sensations, such as palpitations, sweat in our hands and other areas of our body, which act in response to what is happening, in addition, emotionally, it is common to appear for Fear of dying, fainting, losing control or going crazy. Fears can paralyze us and torment us completely.
Can we vomit, feel suffocated and have shortness of breath, as well as nausea?In addition, there is a sense of unreality that completely invades us: it is precisely one of the most disturbing experiences of a panic attack.
It is as if we leave our bodies and look from the outside. We observe our bodies as spectators from an external surveillance station. A feeling that is often experienced with great fear.
But what happens when you go to bed? We believe this moment is a moment of calm, a time when you can put aside worries and finally sleep. Do we fall asleep with our worries, ingess them and set them aside. At least until we find our conscience asleep.
The thing is that panic attacks can also stalk us at night without warning, at least daytime panic attacks can be predicted one way or another, there are signs that we can start noticing and that we can become aware of. a safe place or get out of where we are, for example, in the middle of a crowd.
On the other hand, night panic attacks are totally unpredictable and usually occur before REM sleep. So we don’t realize that until we wake up. This awakening is always abrupt and occurs very suddenly.
When our body accumulates so much anxiety it is as if it bursts, often through panic attacks, there are people who experience very high levels of stress and express themselves through these night attacks, just as they let their guard down. That’s why those who suffer these attacks in the middle of the night feel surprised and scared.
We wake up terrified and don’t understand what’s going on, the seconds seem eternal. Anxiety mixes with a feeling of strangeness and unreality due to the moment it appeared.
How to deal with this nocturnal anxiety begins with this unresolved sense of anxiety, in turn, is it important to work on that?Phobia? It can appear every time the day ends and we lie in our room. In a short time, night panic attacks end up generating a fear of sleep that you will also have to combat.
With good sleep hygiene we will create and consolidate better sleep habits, eliminate everything that bothers us when it comes to bedtime, eating (or pinching) just before bedtime, watching movies or series just before bed that leave us with this kind of unpleasant sensation that sometimes materializes in the body.
You can take these preventative measures to say goodbye to nighttime panic attacks, however, it is important to remember that a lot of this is related to the stress, anxiety or anxiety that we experience in our daily lives, if you encounter this during the day, I may have a very important clue on how to start fighting these sudden attacks that chase us like monsters at night.